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When you move the site let me know
Shame it's turning into another alt.sailing.asa. When you move the site and
get back to interesting subjects relating to boats let me know. M. |
Michael wrote:
Shame it's turning into another alt.sailing.asa. When you move the site and get back to interesting subjects relating to boats let me know. M. Why can't you just read the messages you want and delete the rest undread? The only place this or any newsgroup can be ruined is in the minds of the participants. As long as boaters continue to post boating messages, no one can "ruin the newsgroup." -- Stephen ------- For any proposition there is always some sufficiently narrow interpretation of its terms, such that it turns out true, and some sufficiently wide interpretation such that it turns out false...concept stretching will refute *any* statement, and will leave no true statement whatsoever. -- Imre Lakatos |
"Stephen Trapani" wrote in message
... Michael wrote: Shame it's turning into another alt.sailing.asa. When you move the site and get back to interesting subjects relating to boats let me know. M. Why can't you just read the messages you want and delete the rest undread? The only place this or any newsgroup can be ruined is in the minds of the participants. As long as boaters continue to post boating messages, no one can "ruin the newsgroup." -- Stephen ------- For any proposition there is always some sufficiently narrow interpretation of its terms, such that it turns out true, and some sufficiently wide interpretation such that it turns out false...concept stretching will refute *any* statement, and will leave no true statement whatsoever. -- Imre Lakatos And, it's pretty easy to filter out what you don't want to read, so you don't have to read it in the first place. Too bad not enough people do that instead. We've all been guilty of it, but all it takes is some self-restraint. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
I use Thunderbird to read newsgroups. I added a filter to delete the
message and kill the thread if a sender contains the word "Remailer". This morning there were 111 headers in r.b.c. When I selected the group, the number dropped down to 18 - all real content!!! |
Cindy Ballreich wrote:
I use Thunderbird to read newsgroups. I added a filter to delete the message and kill the thread if a sender contains the word "Remailer". This morning there were 111 headers in r.b.c. When I selected the group, the number dropped down to 18 - all real content!!! Add NFILTER to that to kill all crossposts. Then it starts to look like it used to. Thunderbird should have this capability, but for some reason they have it disabled. |
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On 26 May 2005, Cindy wrote:
I added a filter to delete the message and kill the thread if a sender contains the word "Remailer". You kill the whole thread?? There's gotta be a better way. When a troll see this, you know he's gonna be tempted to reply here... and he won't even have to say anything, just click the Reply button to kill your thread. This morning there were 111 headers in r.b.c. When I selected the group, the number dropped down to 18 - all real content!!! But in some cases you'e throwing the baby out with the bath water. Filters can be overdone. Me, I killfilter messages of known trolls too, but as for threads, I filter only the ones that trolls initiate. That helps a lot. The Delete key is your friend. So is the manual "Ignore" button. Rick |
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On 27 May 2005, Stephen Trapani wrote:
thirty seconds to scroll down through all the subject headers. If I see a subject and author that looks interesting, I read the entire message. Once I get to the end of the subject lines I go up to the "Message" menu pick "Mark as read" Similar here except I mark the uninteresting and hijacked threads "Ignore". Saves the time of skipping them again on future header downloads. Maybe you all need better newsreader software? Define "better". I've tried quite a few (including T'bird) and haven't found anything faster, more stable, less bloated, more configurable, etc than Agent for non-binary newsgroups. Granted, it has a longer/taller learning curve than most. Rick |
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"Cindy Ballreich" wrote in message ... lid wrote: You kill the whole thread?? There's gotta be a better way. When a troll see this, you know he's gonna be tempted to reply here... and he won't even have to say anything, just click the Reply button to kill your thread. My experience is that there are so many people who (for what ever reason) just can't NOT reply to a troll that the threads are unreadable anyway. Of course, this seems to depend on the troll. Jax will create a few flames so I just killfile him and ignore the noise. Neal triggers so much disruption that it poisons the thread. It's the same deal with with these anon-remailer-crosspost folks. They rarely start threads here. Poor, poor little Cindy. It's plain she is anal retentive and sexually unfulfilled. CN |
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"Red CloudŽ" wrote in message ... On 28 May 2005 03:42:22 -0000, er (Harold) wrote: Boy... Somebody has a pretty big chip on their shoulder! rusty redcloud Why don't you just come over to rec.boats and find out firsthand? Coward? Afraid to see your Don White in action? Harold Are you on crack? I've been a regular in rec.boats for years. I've filtered out most of the noisemakers, regardless of thier political leanings. People who constantly **** and moan about others get evaporated. Sometimes, I'll set the filter to expire after a penalty period. If the dope is still misbeaving, they get the permanent royal flush. rusty redcloud Dope? Bwwwaahahhahahhahahahahh! There you go again Bobsprit. Robert Brody is the only fool using the word "dope" in this day and age. Do you enjoy being Mr. Mom? How's the little crumb snatcher? CN |
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